# Research Engineer- Fuel Cell Stack Modeling **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $99,100-$166,200 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/65763?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fe4c9406-85e ## Description As a Research Engineer in Fuel Cell Stack Modeling, you will play a pivotal role in advancing Ford’s clean energy vehicle technologies. You will design and execute high-fidelity simulations that capture the complex physics of automotive fuel cell stack operations. ## Responsibilities - Model Development & Optimization: Develop and improve physical and electrochemical models to predict fuel cell stack performance, degradation, and internal operational states. - Engineering Analysis: Conduct model-based engineering analysis to mitigate stack stress factors and improve lifetime durability, supporting key design decisions for fuel cell stacks, systems, and controls. - Advanced Simulation: Create advanced simulations incorporating the physics of automotive fuel cell stack operation to develop and verify current and future system designs. - Tool & Software Creation: Develop software toolsets for simulated fuel cell stacks to test against physical constraints and safe operational requirements. - Automation: Implement automation processes for the analysis and testing of modeled fuel cell stacks. - Scalability: Develop standardized processes, methods, and tools to make simulation models sharable and scalable across departments. - Data Validation: Analyze and review simulation test data using real-time and post-processing tools to ensure tight correlation between virtual models and physical testing. - Model Integration: Integrate fuel cell stack simulation models with other Ford models, including controls, larger powertrain systems, and full-vehicle simulations. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with hardware test engineers to design physical experiments, parameterize physics-based models, and troubleshoot complex system-level issues. - Documentation & Reporting: Create and maintain comprehensive simulation documentation, document simulation code, and publish technical papers or reports. ## Qualifications - B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related field. - Two or more years of experience with open-loop and closed-loop fuel cell stack simulation. - Demonstrated foundational knowledge of fuel cell technology, electrochemistry principles, and fuel cell system operations. - Experience working with data from fuel cell testing. - Three or more years of experience using MATLAB and Simulink for component and system modeling. - One or more years of experience formulating transfer functions and developing complex simulations. - Proven experience in troubleshooting and solving complex simulation model errors. - Strong oral, visual, and written communication skills. ## Benefits - Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage - Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more - Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more - Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases - Tuition assistance - Established and active employee resource groups - Paid time off for individual and team community service - A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day - Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. ## Skills ### Required - MATLAB - Simulink - fuel cell stack simulation - electrochemistry principles - fuel cell system operations ### Nice to have - Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics - specialized experience in modeling and methods for evaluating Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell degradation - high-fidelity simulation software such as Fluent, COMSOL, AVL Fire M --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/65763?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)